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Hypothetical. you want to go to the senator, have that unmasked, and go to the senator and say you need to know who youre talking to, its not going around anywhere, but for your protection and information, it was picked up in advertently. that is the system right there. >> there is a small number of people who can reveal these nations to a national security advisor. they are all professionals. they would be the director of fbi and the national security agency, occasionally the director of cia if...

Some of this material from the dnc in foreign networks and that means either that they got it from implants that we put in the russian networks or we got it from over here in conversations, or from a human source. now i think there were ways in which the intelligence community could have gotten at that issue because its no secret to the russians that we are inside their networks without being so specific as to blow their sources. >> so, david, you said -- david sanger, you think the intelligence...

Conversatio conversations. i dont know how she disputes that. the question is what difference does it make, if someone celebrated the victory of one candidate or the other? i want to get in the heat of the intelligence conversation to the heart of the matter. do we have solid information, whether its a human source, intercepted communication or elsewhere, that indicates the presidents office in russia was aware of, supported, condoned, backed this operation? all this other stuff is enough. i don...

What you to watch for they ares that there really is evidence of intent and motivation by the hackers. that is the kind of intelligence that requires a human source, or one is called an electronic intercept, picking up a phone call. this is a very high threshold of information to have, number one, and number two, it would be highly unusual for the u.s. government to declassify that kind of information. to >> and why would they do so? >> if you wanted to make the case that there really is thats a...

Sometime before the 20th. what you to watch for they ares that there really is evidence of intent and motivation by the hackers. that is the kind of intelligence that requires a human source, or one is called an electronic intercept, picking up a phone call. this is a very high threshold of information to have, number one, and number two, it would be highly unusual for the u.s. government to declassify that kind of information. to >> and why would they do so? >> if you wanted to make the case th...

Thing he was consistent on other than his love for himself. so it stands to reason that he understood that he somehow benefitted in some way from that relationship that he and his staffers had with russia. >> looking more deeply here, in our reporting, quote, intelligence officials say the u.s. has solid information tying putin to the operation. their use of the term "high confidence" that language there, as a former cia guy, what kind of evidence would you have to have to tag it with high confi...

Telephone. or you can use a human source. the fbi director talked about 900 cases in the u.s. you cant run 900 human sources simultaneously. as isis moves out into communities, european communities, theres one avenue left. the parents of the child in california, this man, youve got to pick up the phone because the other avenues of investigation are disappearing. >> and we have heard that call from the fbi and the attorney general saying, look, we cant do this alone. philip mudd, thank you very m...

Can you run a human source against someone. really inefficient, especially when you talk about the number of cases the fbi is following. more efficient way to do it, read their eames, for example, communication with isis, saying im ready to go. im going to go this week. i fear one day well have a tragedy and fbi couldnt read e-mails and texts, and silicon valley and congress after a lodge time of debating will say, we have to resolve this because there are too many dead people. we have to figure...

And our cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mudd, former cia official. phil, how unusual is it when the u.s. embassy in kabul issues a warning to all americans of an imminent threat and then go one step further and say within the next 48 hours? a specific warning like that, they got to know something. >> thats right. pretty unusual to get this level of detail. i think you got to look at two pieces. first its the backdrop. the taliban has been trying to show in the midst of the u.s. withdrawal how ...

Community is struggling to transaction down any and outline paris parises tracked former scund secretary charlie allen goes "on the record." charlie, so, talk to us about the role of intelligence in tracking these isis terrorists down. >> we have a lot of capability. the united states is the most powerful intelligence apparatus in the world by a large margin. we use both human source intelligence and we use a lot of technical accesses that give us a lot of understanding of the islamic state, the...